this function will create an html select menu. It will "remember" the users choice. for example, lets say the select menu has 3 choices, red, green, and blue
if the user chooses green, and leaves the page, then comes back later, the select menu will already be set to green again. It basicaly just adds selected="selected" to the correct option.
this is very trivial but handy as hell when making websites.
this demo uses sessions, but you dont absolutely need to.
As with ALL of the code snippits online, you should take a moment to understand how they work. Otherwise your likely to have problems sooner or later.
This is just an example, you may need to fine tune it to your needs.
// here we define the option names, and the corresponding text to be displayed for that option // for example <option value="red">I like Red</option> $options = array( 'red' => 'I like Red', 'blue' => 'I like Blue', 'green' => 'I like Green' );
// this will be the <select name="favoriteColor" value in the html select list $menuName = 'favoriteColor';
// if they submitted the form, lets assign thier selection to the session if (isSet($_POST[$menuName])) { $_SESSION[$menuName] = $_POST[$menuName]; }
// $chosen will obviously be filled with the users choice if (isSet($_SESSION[$menuName])) { $chosen = $_SESSION[$menuName]; } else { $chosen = ''; }
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